The only pro to working here is having this well-known company on your resume and they reimburse some of your graduate school tuition or certifications.

Cons

- Staff is very unfriendly and unwelcoming since day one. No one reaches out to you to feel comfortable- All management cares about is how to keep saving the company money. So little emphasis on the customer or their employees (unless you're in marketing or IT)- No consideration for work-life balance.- Employees only care about themselves. No team effort or collaboration.- Management does not provide proper training or guidance to new employees.- Very limited opportunities for advancement.- Company does not allow any professional recommendations for current or former employees.- No appreciation by upper and mid-level management for work done.

Advice to ManagementAdvice

Stop thinking about cutting costs all the time and start thinking about how to promote customer advocacy and keeping your employees satisfied or else you'll continue to have a high employee turnover.

Historically the company has had good benefits. The overall culture is not strenuous on work-life balance, so good for working parents. On site facilities include gym, health services, dry cleaning and cafeteria among others.

Cons

There's no focus on training. The systems are too many and changes are too frequent to feel settled. Constant transformation forces the talent to leave in search of settled places to contribute their skills.

Large company with many different work areas, decent vacation policy, decent compensation

Cons

Lack of clear communication from leadership about where company is going and what the means to its employees, no promotions in Finance, lots of discussion around "inovation, agile and transformation" but no real mid/senior level support for it. No interest in employee feedback.

Advice to ManagementAdvice

Talk to your employees, the moral is terrible and many are not confident about the changes that keep happening.

Many jobs opportunities and there is frequent career movement to new positions to diversify workforce skills. Diverse workforce from all parts of the globe.

Cons

Large company with many rules and processes which frequently are out of date with current times. Size reduces speed of change and launching of new products. To many departments have a say in a product or process change.

Advice to ManagementAdvice

Reduce layers of management and streamline organizations to make them total accountable product and operation success.

The industry is very exciting and Verizon is a true industry leader. If you like working for a company that strives to be number one, is well-run and results oriented, you'll like Verizon.

Cons

Its a big company that can be overwhelming if you do not know how to navigate. When I was there, telecommuting was frowned upon, which frustrated employees who had worked in other companies that had more flexible work arrangements.

- My manager was great and acted as a mentor throughout my internship- I was able to have informal chats with other people in the office-Pay, housing and transportation was good- Diverse corporate culture- Got to meet a lot of cool people

Cons

- The other directors and HR employees didn't recognize my hard achievements until my final presentation- All they care about are sugar coating the numbers for senior leaders- Wasn't given access to the software used- lack of trust- Not a great location and lacking a younger demographic of employees

Advice to ManagementAdvice

- make a stronger connection with your interns especially for top tier schools so they want to stay